Question

Is there a way to include (or display) multiple polls in one topic? I've been playing with PollPlugin and would like to have more than one poll in a topic which is not the way it seems to be set up. I experimented with using INCLUDE to display several polls in one topic, hoping that the poll results would be stored in the respective poll topics. However, when I post an opinion on a poll, the script jumps me over to the poll topic.

In a similar vein, I would also be interested in displaying the poll results separately from the poll input forms so as not to influence choices during polling. Being as TWiki currently allows only one INCLUDE per topic, I can't (easily) display multiple polls on one topic and multiple poll results on another. It occurs to me that perhaps this could be achieved by utilizing custom regular expressions with the includes but this is over my head at present.

Any suggestions for how to do any of this?

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-- LynnwoodBrown - 24 May 2002

Answer

. There might be other, better solution, but here is simple one: put one poll per page, and INCLUDE these pages into one summary page. WabiSabi

-- PeterMasiar - 25 May 2002

That was essentially what I tried the first time around. The main problem was that when someone posted an opinion on the multi-poll topic, they were bounced over to that individual poll's topic.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 26 May 2002

I have uploaded a new version of PollPlugin (v 1.010) that solves the above issue:

• you can have multiple polls in the same topic (an id parameter has been added)
• you can choose to show all exaequo (same-rank) items collected in a single row or each one in a separate row
• the votes are anonymous (and the POLLVOTERS tag has been discontinued)
• you can vote several issues at the same time (multidimensional polls)
• you can see the rank both for each issue and cumulatively (all issues together)

-- AndreaSterbini - 21 Sep 2003

Thank-you Andrea for addressing one of my top wish-list items! I have already installed your updated PollPlugin and am putting it through the paces. Thanks again.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 22 Sep 2003